Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Peter Boulton is the CTO for positioning products at Spirent Communications and has spent 24 years in the GNSS simulation and test industry.
Boulton is an honors graduate in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Wales.
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Em. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Guenter W. Hein is Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich.
He was ESA Head of EGNOS & GNSS Evolution Programme Dept. between 2008 and 2014, in charge of development of the 2nd generation of EGNOS and Galileo.
Prof. Hein is still organizing the ESA/JRC International Summerschool on GNSS, and is the founder of the annual Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.
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Arkadiusz Szumski is a Young Graduate Trainee of the European Space Agency (ESA).
He received his engineer diploma in space telecommunication systems from Telecom Bretagne, France and a M.Sc. degree in radiocommunication from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.
Szumski’s research interests are signal processing algorithms in the satellite signal chain. He has been involved in projects that focus particularly on frequency and phase synchronization and interference mitigation.
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Oscar Pozzobon is the founder and technical director of Qascom.
He received a degree in information technology engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, and a master degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, in telecommunication engineering.
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Ali Broumandan received his Ph.D. degree in the geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary.
He has worked in the PLAN Group as senior research associate since November 2013 where his research focuses on GNSS interference mitigation using single- and multiple-antenna processing.
Broumandan has been involved in several industrial research projects focusing on spatial/temporal GNSS signal processing.
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Michael Jones is a consultant engineer at Roke Manor Research, specializing in advanced GNSS adaptive antenna systems and state-of-the-art radar.
He gained a First-Class Masters degree in electronic engineering from the University of York and was also awarded the Racal prize for best avionics degree.
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Randy Silva has been a principal software engineer and system architect in the GPS industry for 20 years.
He presently works for Broadcom Corporation developing GNSS navigation software.
He holds a computer science degree from the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Javier de Salas has worked in the GPS industry since 1994 and is now a director in the GPS business unit of Broadcom where he leads the GPS R&D center in Madrid, Spain.
Previously, de Salas worked at Ashtech, Magellan, and Global Locate.
He has an M.S. in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds eight U.S. patents on GNSS technology.
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Frank van Diggelen is a Broadcom Fellow and vice-president of technology for Broadcom
Corporation where he directs development of GNSS, sensor, and wireless
LAN location technology. He holds more than 70 issued U.S. patents on
A-GNSS.
He is the author of the bestselling textbook, A-GPS: Assisted GPS, GNSS and SBAS, the first textbook on A-GPS; available in English and Chinese.
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Konstandinos Diamandouros joined the European Road Federation (ERF) in April 2009 as a communications and research associate and then as director of operations.
Previously, following his completion of post-graduate studies in international and European politics, Diamandouros worked for more than three years as a policy officer in the Directorate-General for Research at the European Commission.
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Sara Gutiérrez-Lanza is an electronics engineer and industrial technical engineer.
She is the coordinator of the Division of Navigation Engineering and Applications in the Transportation area of GMV, being responsible for planning, configuration management and cost control, pre-sales activities, and business development.
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Marco Lisi, Dr. ing., is presently GNSS services engineering manager at the European Space Agency in the Directorate of Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities.
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Nicklas Lindman is a system engineer working at the European Space Agency in the System Modelling and Functional Verification Section at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
At ESA he supports projects and leads R&D activities in the area of system engineering, system modelling, and system simulation.
He also supports standardization activities in these areas.
Lindman holds a master’s degree in space engineering from Umea University in Sweden.
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